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What Killed the Woolly Mammoth
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  • Length

    52:00 mins

  • Education Subject Areas

    Biology

    General Science

    Space science

  • Year Produced

    2007

  • Reference Number

    20371

  • Title

    What Killed the Woolly Mammoth

What Killed the Woolly Mammoth

A team of investigators is hot on the trail of an alien killer, as they try to solve one of the great mysteries of science: what agent of destruction swept across North America some 13,000 years ago and may have wiped the mammoths off the face of the earth? Could a perfect shot from outer space have triggered a mass extinction? For over a million years, the mammoths reigned over the landscapes of North America. The possibility that a killer comet may have taken out the mammoths about 13,000 years ago is a chilling reminder of our own tenuous existence. How long before the next wave of cosmic destruction alters the fate of life on earth?

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